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That's such a fucked up thing to do to make dogs that are as aggressive as possible. These are not going to be happy animals.
Making aggressive war dogs is something humanity tried before. Mastiffs and Chow Chows are two examples. They often attacked and killed their human masters.
Really I think we should extinct the practice of training attack dogs. In US police action they're abused to escalate to violence quicker than an officer would resort to firearms.
Armored dogs in war would be responed to like mechanized armor. A dozen of my cheap flying explosive drones will make short work of your expensive dog.
But then, the US hasn't caught up to the tech of cheap drones.
In my opinion, police dogs, in the US at least, are a vestigial cultural holdover from law enforcement's slave catching past. There isn't really a good tactical reason to be using them that couldn't be performed by other equipment. They are unreliable, expensive, and get shot surprisingly often. If you really interrogated why they still use attack dogs, their answer would be that those people are scared of them.
Other than that, scenthounds are just probable cause generators which are all probably trained to alert on command.
Police dogs are analogous to whips, in that they are an ineffective weapon against an equal enemy but good at reducing the morale of slaves.
(sorry if I'm just restating your point, I think it's an important one)
I'd been tracking detection dogs more than attack dogs, and yeah police dogs in use have false-positive rates sometimes 90%+. US precincts call them probable cause on four legs.
The sad thing is there's a detection dog sector that resents the current misuse culture since its delegitimizing good faith uses.
Maybe once we can overhaul how policing and investigation are done, we can restrict detection dogs to instances where high false positive rates will be counter productive. Say, sniffing for explosives at an airport at a long line of luggage.
Regardless of what they tell you, these aren't gonna be used overseas. These are gonna be deployed domestically, as terror weapons in occupied territories.
Seriously I'm sure ICE would be happy to buy them
they switched to use malinois now, because they are more bitey than A gsd, and also more aggresive when trained to do so.